WRUW Today?

StephenRL · Aug 25, 2022

dougiedude · Aug 25, 2022

Scarecrow Boat
Just signed for this one today and pretty smitten

Wowwww! Condition!!!

Here’s my ‘65 666 with some added patina:

Scarecrow Boat · Aug 25, 2022

dougiedude
Wowwww! Condition!!!

Here’s my ‘65 666 with some added patina:

Love it! Mine has developed a bit of dial texture like yours and I like it! How did you go about dating yours? I’m keen to narrow that down on mine

dougiedude · Aug 25, 2022

Scarecrow Boat
Love it! Mine has developed a bit of dial texture like yours and I like it! How did you go about dating yours? I’m keen to narrow that down on mine

With Bulova, and a few of the other popular American brands of the time like Timex, the date is on the case back, a letter for decade, followed by a single numeral for the year…

Edit: actually, on these, it’s on the inside of the case back:

M = 196x , M5 = 1965

8926ob · Aug 25, 2022

Thanks. It was a surreptitious find...but fortuitous.

LesXL
This is gorgeous

Scarecrow Boat · Aug 25, 2022

dougiedude
With Bulova, and a few of the other popular American brands of the time like Timex, the date is on the case back, a letter for decade, followed by a single numeral for the year…

Edit: actually, on these, it’s on the inside of the case back:

M = 196x , M5 = 1965

Ah! Thank you so much! That would make mine from 1967 😀